The silkworm W chromosome is a source of female-enriched piRNAs

RNA

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2144-2151

  Kawaoka, Shinpei ^a   Kadota, Koji ^a   Arai, Yuji ^a   Suzuki, Yutaka ^b   Fujii, Tsuguru ^a   Abe, Hiroaki ^c   Yasukochi, Yuji ^d   Mita, Kazuei ^d   Sugano, Sumio ^b   Shimizu, Kentaro ^a   Tomari, Yukihide ^b   Shimada, Toru ^a   Katsuma, Susumu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

piRNA; Sex chromosome; Silkworm; Transposon

Indexed keywords

PIWI INTERACTING RNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GONAD; MALE; NONHUMAN; OVARY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX CHROMOSOME; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SILKWORM; TESTIS; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; BOMBYX; CHROMOSOMES, INSECT; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GONADS; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX CHROMOSOMES; SEX DETERMINATION PROCESSES;

ANIMALIA; BOMBYX MORI;

EID: 81755172087     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: 14699001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.027565.111     Document Type: Article

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